StrongDM Support

[KevinF]

Does anyone have experience using StrongDM to connect Alteryx Server to a backend database?  We use StrongDM for local developers connections, and I wanted to see if that is a supported option when using Alteryx Server. We are using Alteryx Server 2021.2.1.

StrongDM

[BrandonB]

Hi @KevinF 

I haven't personally used it before but reading through some of their docs it does look like they have tried connecting via Alteryx Designer. 

If this works then in theory StrongDM would just need to be configured on the Alteryx Server machine to always allow a connection to whatever database and then connect via the ODBC drivers as necessary. It seems that the bigger question is how StrongDM should be administered server side for automated ETL jobs (this is a larger conversation than just Alteryx) . Alteryx supports the data sources found here (https://help.alteryx.com/20212/designer/data-sources), but we have not tested and/or configured StrongDM. 

Hopefully this helps! 

[BrandonB]

They do, however, have an SDK for Python which might be nifty for administering StrongDM via Alteryx workflow! Take a look here: https://github.com/strongdm/strongdm-sdk-python